On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:19:18 +0000 Sam Kuper <sam.ku...@uclmail.net> wrote:
> Dear all, Hi, > Nicola Corna pointed out to me that adding a timeout at > https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/blob/master/src/northbridge/intel/nehalem/raminit.c#L1756 > might solve this problem. > > (I guess the idea is that instead of waiting indefinitely for the ME > to load, Coreboot should instead just wait for a defined amount of > time and then plough on regardless.) > > I am not a C programmer, so am not competent to add that timeout. Adding the timeout is easy, however I'm not sure how much we should wait. I used one second to be large but I've no idea if it's enough or not. > Please can anyone here provide a suitable patch for me to test, or > failing that, point me to a similar timeout in another architecture's > raminit that I might use as a starting point? I'll send one. I didn't check for typos or spelling yet in the commit message. Denis.
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